SamElliot said:
Pre-colonist North America: that would be kind of badass to play as a member of any number of American Indian tribes, and maybe have to fight the spirits of their lore.
And it's not like they never fought each other. That would be epic as hell, if the tactics they used against settlers were the same that they used against each other (stealth, ambush, raiding, guerilla stuff generally) then can you imagine a greater game of cat and mouse-with-tomahawk?
You might have to dig a bit more to get the context for that, but I know that in what would become French Canada the Iroquois Confederacy was very unpopular among people who weren't Iroquois because the had a tendancy to go on the offensive. The Cree, at least, were very happy to have the French settlers help them deal with their Iroquois problem. That's part of the reason Benjamin Franklin had some contact with them, the French and their allies had driven them south and they had allied with the British. Or just take the gameplay I sort of described and apply it the the spirit thing. My premise would be good if they ever wanted to go WaW on it.